Piketon Integrated Energy Hub

Redevelopment of former uranium enrichment facility to serve as clean energy production and manufacturing hub for hydrogen and materials industries.

Update: Since the MP4MA Summit, the project team presented the hub at the White House, with White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy and U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm in attendance.

Project Sponsor: Ohio University Voinovich School.

Athens: Hocking River Restoration

River restoration project to enable flood mitigation and enhanced recreation opportunities. The goal of the project is to restore the structural and functional aspects of the ecosystem that have suffered due to acid mine run-off.

Update: Since the Summit, the City of Athens has been working through an engagement agreement with its U.S. Army Corps of Engineers district in order to launch an engineering study on the Hocking River.

Project Sponsor: City of Athens.

PGH Green Building & Energy Technology Proving Ground, Johnstown

Support energy transition through application of high performance building technologies, broadband artificial intelligence, construction materials, and workforce training and upskilling in collaboration with residential and commercial building developers and manufacturers. Providing a shared physical and virtual space for clean energy technology applications, workforce and organized labor training, and technology research labs. Scale technologies and workforce through adjacent neighborhood applications in residential and commercial spaces. Focus on building insulation, electrification and on-site renewable generation capabilities provided by private manufacturers.

Project Sponsor: Pittsburgh Gateways & Energy Innovation Center.

Circular Economy and Reuse Corridor- Coalfield Redevelopment

Development of circular reuse strategies and product applications from waste materials. Targeted applications for solar energy manufacturing, bio based materials, mine land reclamation and green collar technology design.

Update: The Coalfield Development team has been selected as one of the recipients of the EDA Build Back Better Challenge Grant, focused on developing and scaling climate resilient industries in central Appalachia.

See also: APPALACHIAN ReUse CORRIDOR Strategic Plan (2022-2026).

Project Sponsor: Center for Coalfield Development.

Sustainable Finance Hub

The sustainable finance hub will help maximize the potential of sustainable projects, at the front end, by advocating for policies matching up to projects’ needs -- and getting local municipalities to enact these policies to create collaboration with union labor and key government stakeholders which can unlock investment opportunities and drive quality risk adjusted returns.

Update: The project is actively fundraising for talent resources, research, education, and building, operationalizing, and promoting the sustainable finance hub portal.

Project Sponsor: Heartland Capital Strategies.

The Building Blocks for a Clean Energy Economy

The project is a series of regionally-focused cohorts supporting a group of local governments, universities, businesses, utilities, and other large institutions through a series of tactical workshops to prepare brownfield sites for solar energy and procure large-scale solar energy projects on and around brownfields or other underutilized sites in the region.

Update: Hecate Energy has been fully dedicated to developing a solar/battery storage manufacturing hub along the I-79 corridor stretching between Pittsburgh, PA and Clarksburg, WV, in anticipation of the manufacturing tax incentives provided by the Build Back Better Act. Most recently, the Hecate solar manufacturing hub was featured at a White House CEO Roundtable on Energy Communities.

Project Sponsors: RMI, Hecate Energy, & Partners